The road from home and the Island of the Grass King. The Lewis Carroll shelf award. And then we can talk about this rad seafaring book. This episode is brought to you by BetterHelp.
Would a rose by any other name smell as sweet? If you're a wizard of Earthsea, you can make it smell however you want if you know it's TRUE name. LeGuin's beloved fantasy novel is notable for how it plays both against and into common fantasy tropes, delivering a proper hero's journey without the same Sturm und Drang we've come to expect in the genre.
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